Big mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Vendu
700 €
Provenance
Ladislas Segy, New York, USAHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1979)
Taille
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
wood, blackish grey encrusted patina, darkened kaolin, sacrificial traces (feathers), with narrow slit eyes, grooved chaplet and a large protruding mouth, dam., minor missing parts, partly spread with mass, traces of old age;
presumably belonging to the mask figure “ganwrewrä”, which performed in the circumcision camps and belonged to the “go” society.